Iran begins trial of female journalist who covered Mahsa Amini’s death

Niloofar Hamedi appears in court over her reporting on woman whose death sparked mass protests

A revolutionary court in Iran has begun the trial of a female journalist behind closed doors on charges linked to her coverage of a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in custody last year sparked months of unrest, her husband tweeted.

Mahsa Amini’s death while held by the “morality police” for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code unleashed a wave of mass anti-government protests for months, posing one of the boldest challenges to the country’s clerical leaders in decades.